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• Astrophysicist works to make science understandable
  28 de enero

  Can the Earth be swallowed by a black hole? And can black holes — with their immense destructive power — themselves be destroyed?
  Millions apparently want to know, and a Harvard postdoctoral fellow and black-hole expert is providing the answers in educational videos that have been translated into more than two dozen languages and viewed more than 4 million times.
  The fellow is Fabio Pacucci , a theoretical astrophysicist studying the universe’s very earliest black holes. Pacucci, whose (...)

• Study likens Earth’s evolution to creation of Frankenstein’s monster
  28 de enero

  When the Earth was born, it was a mess. Lightning storms and meteors likely bombarded the planet’s surface, a barren wasteland with little but chemicals present. How life formed amid such chaos is a mystery billions of years old. Now, a new study offers evidence that the first building blocks may have matched their environment, evolving in a less orderly way than previously thought.
  “Years ago, the naive idea that pools of pure concentrated ribonucleotides might be present on the primitive (...)

• Does Apple Anchor a Shopping Mall? The Effect of the Technology Stores on the Formation of Market Structure
  28 de enero, por and Reo Song, by Doug J. Chung, Kyoungwon Seo

  Anchor stores are the key tenants in a mall, occupying most of the gross leasable area and generating much of the foot traffic. This research provides a framework to understand why new and traditional anchor stores join a shopping mall and how their decisions affect mall configuration.

• Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
  28 de enero, por by Sean Silverthorne

  In a new book, Rosabeth Moss Kanter encourages leaders to "think outside the building" to overcome establishment paralysis and generate powerful innovation.

• Outed educator and novelist Hovelmeier flees Zimbabwe
  27 de enero

  Educator and novelist Neal Hovelmeier ’s life changed forever in 2018. The longtime deputy head of school at St. John’s College, a boys’ academy in Borrowdale, a suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, was at his desk on a September afternoon when the email arrived. It was a short, direct note from a journalist at a local paper who was writing an article about him that would run the following day. “Do you wish to comment?” the reporter asked.
  “I was about to be outed in a country that hates (...)

• The long-term effects of wildfires
  27 de enero

  The recent massive wildfires in Australia have killed more than 30 people and an estimated 1 billion animals, and burned 2,500 homes and millions of acres. And the human toll is expected to rise even after the blazes wind down. According to Harvard scientist Loretta Mickley, senior research fellow in atmospheric chemistry at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering (SEAS), long-term exposure to the smoke-filled air hanging over much of the country could lead to many premature (...)

• Human body-on-chip platform may speed up drug development
  27 de enero

  Drug development is an arduous and costly process, and failure rates in clinical trials that test new drugs for their safety and efficacy in humans remain high. According to current estimates, only 13.8 percent of all tested drugs demonstrate ultimate clinical success and obtain approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There are also increasing issues regarding animal studies, and a search for replacements.
  To help address this bottleneck in drug development, Donald Ingber and (...)

• Hard Work Isn’t Enough: How to Find Your Edge
  27 de enero, por by Dina Gerdeman

  Life isn’t fair, especially in the workplace. In Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, Laura Huang offers a new strategy for uncovering and showcasing your unique value in the face of obstacles.

• Map shows how nonviolent uprisings succeed
  27 de enero

  The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University has launched a new interactive map that catalogs all mass uprisings around the world between 1945 and 2014. The map draws on data collected by Professor Erica Chenoweth and research fellow Christopher Shay that resoundingly showed that nonviolent campaigns achieve their political goals more effectively than violent campaigns. The findings upended the long-held assumption that only violent insurgencies can bring about (...)

• Any joint JD/MBA applicants?
  26 de enero, por curiousgeorge13

  Title says it all—would love to connect with you!

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